The Girl's Movements Are Still a Little Awkward / Airi Sakura Lacks the Courage

You can now use Reading Points to allocate skill points to optional Skill.

Horikita Suzune: "...?"

Where are my talents? Where are my gifts? Where are the Skill I've honed over the years?

What is Modeling? What is Frontal Armor? Why compare her to Yukino Yukinoshita? Who is Yukinoshita?

Is his Grit only 75? What kind of person dares to challenge this Lord Yamauchi?

How can there be Loneliness? Is 59 considered high? Am I really that Loneliness?

In a daze, she seemed to hear someone's voice saying, "Mistaking Loneliness for arrogance."

... Very good, she understands.

This thing wasn't meant to give her skill points; it was just a way to bring up the taunting she'd already mentioned before, and then mock her again, all under the guise of a Skill.

Chapter 151 The girl's movements were still a little awkward.

Suppressing the strong urge to close the Diary, Horikita Suzune calmed herself and flipped back through the pages.

As expected, she easily found the corresponding page associated with these three Skills and comments.

The former was the only thing he praised about himself when he was discrediting himself as a "Low-Spec Yukino".

'Modeling'.

Secondly, it was when he was praising "Lord Yamauchi" that he was also praising himself.

'Grit'.

The latter was the phrase he had spoken in a brotherly tone, which was the very phrase she had just hallucinated.

'Loneliness'.

None of them were things she wanted to add points to to become stronger.

Modeling... well, it's all about looks, Frontal Armor probably refers to that lump of fat on the chest.

The numbers in her Diary also show that 94 is a very high number, consistent with her self-perception.

'I'm very good-looking.'

This number is already enough; to achieve this result without focusing on her appearance at all, she should be proud of herself.

There's absolutely no need to add any points.

As for Grit... she never felt that she lacked the courage to stand up in important moments.

It was precisely because of this courage that her Grit was worthy of being given the number 75 in her Diary.

Although the comments were subtle, she didn't feel she lacked courage.

... Although she wasn't completely without fear of anything.

When facing her brother directly, she always felt that she didn't have enough courage.

Perhaps we could add one or two more.

As for Loneliness, that's the last thing we're going to add.

Horikita Suzune had long ago repeatedly recited the line she had written in her Diary, "Mistaking Loneliness for arrogance," as a way to reflect on and warn herself.

Her friendship with Kushida Kikyo is also a testament to her progress.

... Although Kushida Kikyo has been acting subtly a bit strange lately.

But no matter what, they are still friends.

She also has such a friend!

In short, there's no time to even think about lowering the Loneliness level, so how could Horikita Suzune possibly increase it?

Try adding a bit of Grit.

With a sigh, Horikita Suzune picked up her pen and wrote '+1' after "Grit".

Just like the last time when comments were open to the public, which had to be written down, although she hadn't left any comments, she naturally assumed that adding comments would also require writing, since she knew about it from Kushida Kikyo.

"Changing the 'Grit' value will consume 10 Reading Points. Would you like to add points?"

"Yes," the girl replied calmly.

As a result, the Grit value jumped up slightly in her eyes.

"..."

However... to be honest, she didn't really feel it.

Is it because the value is too low? Or the change is too small? A mere 1 point is only a 1.3% increase from 75 points.

However, it takes 10 Reading Points to add even one point of Grit... It's hard to say whether it's worth it or not.

Regardless, Horikita Suzune has no intention of adding any more points.

Now that we know for sure that only content mentioned in previous diaries will be extracted into Skill, we should naturally save the remaining points for useful things.

After all, with the comment function available, if planned well, it's still possible to induce the other person to write down the Skill they want in their diary.

... It's hard to say whether such a strategy would be approved by the Diary.

She was written about quite a lot, but in the end, only these three Skills were recorded in her Diary.

The criticisms like "incompetent," "indecisive," and "pretending to be cold" weren't displayed.

So she wasn't really sure if it would work.

But regardless of whether it's possible or not, giving up without even trying has never been her style.

"... Let me discuss it with Kushida first before making a decision." Horikita Suzune thought to herself as she sent Kushida Kikyo another of her annoying messages for the day.

"Buzz--"

The Personal Terminal vibrated a few times before returning to calm.

As always, Kushida Kikyo ignored the news, wrapped her arms around someone's neck, and flipped through today's diary behind him.

The contents of today's diary are not important, so she won't mention them.

The topic of the Girl Band from a few days ago has simply ended, and the conversation has shifted to brief everyday topics.

Important, or rather, useful, points are being added to this new section, which begins today with the recalculation of Class Points in early June.

Skill.

[Kushida Kikyo]

[Two-Faced: 69 (Your disguise is masterful)]

[Kissing: 36 (The girl's movements were still slightly awkward)]

You can now use Reading Points to allocate skill points to optional Skill.

The Skill displayed under your name are only two: "Two-Faced" and "Kissing".

The Two-Faced that had been mentioned countless times in her previous diary were completely ignored by Kushida Kikyo, whose gaze was slightly fixed on the 'Kissing'.

'36'

That's a bit low.

She was too lazy to think about why only these two Skills were displayed, nor was Skill too lazy to ponder their meaning.

It's nothing more than the kind of satire that Diary love to do; there's no need to delve too deeply into its original meaning. Maybe this book doesn't even have any special significance.

However, upon seeing the number following the 'Kissing' Skill, a slight, inexplicable feeling of dissatisfaction arose in the girl's heart.

How come you're only 36?

Despite the obvious message that she could add Reading Points if she was dissatisfied, Kushida Kikyo completely ignored it and simply propped herself up slightly while hanging on someone.

Her slender fingertips gripped the already disheveled shirt tightly, her slightly relaxed fingers tracing upwards with her backward-leaning weight, her hands supporting her body as she straightened up.

She wrapped her arms around his neck, looked directly into his eyes, and gently parted her lips:

"Look at me."

"..." Asakusa Toru smiled silently, then decisively lowered his head.

A moist, sticky feeling pervades, and the casual demands are kept to a minimum.

At first, there was a brief exchange of temperature, like a dragonfly skimming the water, but it soon became more than that.

Her slightly relaxed hands unconsciously crossed, heavy breaths mingling as the girl's eyes gradually became hazy.

When the principle of "stopping when you should" is forgotten, someone begins to become addicted to it.

"..."

Kushida Kikyo opened her diary again.

Her gaze swept up and down, quickly locating the area she wanted to focus on.

Soon, she saw that the number after 'Kissing' had jumped up by 1 point.

[Kissing: 37 (The girl's movements were still a little awkward)]

Then, a slight smile appeared on her lips.

"Again," she said.

'37→38'

Chapter 152 Sakura Airi Lacks Courage

June 5th.

Several days have passed since the regular Class Points settlement, and the long-awaited arrival of Private Points has finally eased the suffocating atmosphere in Class D.

Although it was only a mere 8,000 points, to them who had been broke for a month, it was a huge amount of money!

After the midterm exams, each class's Class Points increased to varying degrees based on their performance.

Class A maintained its advantage, raising its Class Points to 902. However, perhaps because they were originally Class B, and influenced by the class teacher's nonchalant attitude, coupled with the relatively harmonious and friendly atmosphere in the class, everyone relaxed and lost some points for behavior due to the relaxed attitude.

In contrast, Class B worked much harder, quickly rising to 900 points, and only 2 points away from overtaking them.

After all, they were supposed to be in Class A. Seeing their seats taken by the former Class B, while they had to humiliatingly bear the name of 'Class B', it was only natural that they would work even harder.

However, when it comes to effort, they are certainly no match for Class D, who have no money at all.

Thanks to the efforts of the vast majority of students, they ultimately received most of the Class Points awarded in the midterm exams.

Despite the several disturbances in class, perhaps because their Class Points before, all violations before the midterm exams were not counted, and this time they actually received the most Class Points.

As for Class C... the drawbacks of the high-pressure rule still appeared. After a month of pressure, the second month saw the fatal collapse of laxity.

They only added two points, bringing their total to 752.

"..."

"8000 points is still too few; they won't last long at all."

"Yeah, it's all gone in no time. Didn't they say there would be a hundred points? So even though they said there wouldn't be a test, points still get deducted?"

"No way, do I really have to go to class again this month? I've had enough..."

"Who told us to have an old man in our class?" someone said sarcastically.

Although no names were mentioned, everyone knows who it refers to.

Koenji.

Not only did they not share the class's debts, but they also showed no consideration for the Class Points, acting very casually in the classroom.

Honestly, if it weren't for the intimidating reputation of the Koenji Zaibatsu and the truly frightening muscles he displayed during outdoor classes, the class's opinions would have overwhelmed him long ago.

The reason why everyone has tolerated him until now is partly due to Hirata's mediation, but more so because of the other old men involved.

For example, Yamauchi Haruki and Kanji Ike were completely liberated after the midterm exams.

Although there was a slight rift Yamauchi because of the exam, since no one in the class paid any attention to him, and after feeling awkward for a while, he realized that he wasn't a pretty girl and no one would take the initiative to reconcile with him, he still happily hung out with Yamauchi again.